Children of the Revolution (2010 film)

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Children of the Revolution
Directed byShane O'Sullivan
Produced byShane O'Sullivan
StarringUlrike Meinhof
Fusako Shigenobu
Mei Shigenobu
Bettina Röhl
Astrid Proll
Masao Adachi
Klaus Rainer Röhl
Leila Khaled
Bassam Abu Sharif
Erika Runge
Takaya Shiomi
Kyoko Ohtani
Jutta Lack-Strecker
CinematographyRobin Probyn
Axel Schneppat
Bassem Fayad
Edited byBen Yeates
Fergal McGrath
Shane O'Sullivan
Music byGiles Packham (Waveform Studios)
Distributed byE2 Films
Release date
  • 22 November 2010 (2010-11-22) (IDFA)
Running time
92 minutes
CountriesIreland
United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Children of the Revolution is a 2010 documentary by Irish filmmaker Shane O'Sullivan about Ulrike Meinhof and Fusako Shigenobu, leaders of the German Red Army Faction and the Japanese Red Army.[1]

The film describes the experiences of Meinhof and Shigenobu through the perspective of their daughters, Mei and Bettina, and uses archive footage of student protests and guerilla training camps in Germany, Japan and the Middle East.[2]

The film premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in November 2010[3] and has screened at several international festivals.[4] It had its broadcast premiere on German channel Westdeutscher Rundfunk on 30 May 2011[5] and was released on DVD in the United Kingdom in 2011.[6] It was pitched at the 2009 Sheffield Doc/Fest MeetMarket.

References

  1. ^ "Children of the Revolution". IMDb.
  2. ^ Hodges, Michael (24 August 2011). "Children of the Revolution". Time Out.
  3. ^ "IDFA | Project | International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam". Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
  4. ^ "Children of the Revolution - Jameson Dublin International Film Festival". Archived from the original on 10 October 2011. Retrieved 28 July 2011.
  5. ^ "WDR.dok". 28 October 2021.
  6. ^ http://www.childrenoftherevolution.co.uk Archived 22 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine

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